“I hate paperwork”

• Hands-on owners — tradies, carers, clinicians, creatives — who are on the tools all day.
• People whose bookkeeping is months behind and who dread catching up.
• Owners who tried software and gave up when it got complicated.

• Receipts in the car, the email and a drawer.
• BAS done in a rush at the last minute — or late.
• You avoid your accounting software because it makes you feel behind.
• You pay for a bookkeeper or software but still feel buried.

Questions worth asking — we’d rather ask than assume.

• Is the system built for an accountant rather than for the way you actually work?
• Could most of the paperwork be captured automatically — bank feeds, receipt photos, rules — so you only touch the exceptions?
• Is catching up feeling impossible because nobody has broken it into small steps?

• It tends to bite at BAS time, at year end, and when the ATO or a lender asks for records.
• Behind is fixable. The longer it runs, the bigger the catch-up — so sooner is kinder.

• Your bank feeds — most of the story is already there.
• Your email inbox, where many receipts and invoices already sit.
• Whatever pile, folder or box the rest is in — bring it as it is.

1. 1

   Take the pile as it is

   No sorting before you see us. We would rather see the mess than have you spend a weekend tidying.

2. 2

   Catch up in stages

   We bring the records up to date in an order that deals with deadlines first.

3. 3

   Set it up to run itself

   Bank feeds, receipt capture and simple rules so the routine paperwork happens without you.

4. 4

   Leave you only the decisions

   You answer the few questions only you can answer; we do the rest.

This is how we would start with you — general information, not a do-it-yourself checklist or personal advice.

• Bookkeeping, BAS and tax are handled together, so you are not the go-between for three providers.
• We use automation to remove routine paperwork — and a person checks what matters.

• You talk to Graham Chee FCPA, the principal — the same person from the first conversation onwards, with 25 years in public practice. About Graham
• Local Knowledge Pty Ltd is a CPA public practice and a registered tax agent — you can check us on the Tax Practitioners Board public register. TPB register
• Finalist, Accountants Daily Australian Accounting Awards — Multiservice Firm of the Year (2025 and 2026) and Marketing Program of the Year (2025).
• We show our reasoning in the open, so you can see how we think before you ever pick up the phone. Watch it think